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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: What S-Class....

« on: August 16, 2012, 04:00:23 AM »

I am not sure if the mainsail is actually reefed in that photo. Recently I was told by a fellow S Class sailor that back in the original day, these boats may have had smaller sails used in heavy air. In other words, a scaled down mainsail, rather than a reefed full-size mainsail. I would be interested in learning more about this or seeing any other photos of S boats with smaller than the usual full-size mainsail.

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Restoration / Restoration of S Class #831, #835

« on: February 22, 2012, 03:06:00 AM »

Hello fellow Herreshoff fans. I just wanted to share that, together with a great team of people who love Herreshoff boats as much as you do, we've begun the restoration of two classic Herreshoff S Boats, hulls #831 (ex-Panda, originally Papoose, now Papoose) and #835 (ex-Kajee, now "Squaw").

You can follow along with periodic photo updates of our progress at http://blog.herreshoffracing.com/

You can learn more about my goals for the effort at http://blog.herreshoffracing.com/about

There are many great people involved in the project, some of whom are recognized at http://blog.herreshoffracing.com/people

We hope to have these both boats back on the water this fall in Narragansett Bay.

Kind regards,
-angus

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: S-Class Gob and Uncas

« on: January 02, 2012, 02:33:16 AM »

Steve,
Feel free to drop me an email, angus.davis@gmail.com. Ted is a friend we share an interest in S Boat sailing, history and research. Our family owns Aquila. We race her regularly and she is not being rebuilt, other than the usual maintenance after a busy summer of racing :-) We are researching the history of some of the other very early (first 16) S Boats. Ted and I heard there was an S boat with an arrow painted on the side of her in Marblehead that had been out of the water for some time, and we thought she may have been Cheerio #833, which was last seen in Marblehead in 1953 with the name Arrow then owned by Dr. Reginald Hammerick Smithwick. According to Ken she only appears in the race records for one year and then disappears. The rumor of an S Boat with an arrow was tempting, and that was the mission that brought Ted up to Marblehead where Gregg was very kind to show him Enterprise, which I understand was originally named Uncas. The search for Cheerio/Arrow's current whereabouts thus remains an unsolved mystery!
-angus